Movie Review- So, Where’s All This Activity That’s Supposed to be in ‘Paranormal Activity 4’?

The now famous
paranormal movie franchise has released their newest movie: Paranormal Activity 4. This series is
starting to feel like the Saw movies.
They keep making more and more but downgrading on the scares. The first couple Paranormal Activity movies were awesome.
They were scary, had great plots, and made you excited for the next
installment.

Five years ago, Katie and Hunter
disappeared. In the new movie, a new family witnesses strange events in their
neighborhood and in their home when a woman and a mysterious and weird child
move in.

Teenager Alex (Kathryn Newton) starts to notice weird occurrences
in her home and has boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively) set up cameras to capture all
the activity, or lack thereof. After the mother of the weird child has to be
taken to the hospital, the weird kid lives with Alex, her mom, dad, and little
brother. After that, unexplainable things start to happen.

It takes a long time for the story to get going and once it
does, it never actually uncovers answers from previous films and uses a lot of
the same plot points and the same “paranormal activity” like doors opening,
clocks stopping; they needed to spice it up! It’s a little scary that they
couldn’t be a little more creative. The first two films scared people. It made
us jump; even the smallest movement or quietest sound terrified us, which made
the films so special, but the makers of Paranormal
Activity 4 forgot that and did a shotty job with storytelling.

But, I can’t totally bash the film because a few scenes did
make me jump and had me on the edge of my seat. The weird boy was totally
creepy too. The classic scene where someone is sleeping and a black shadow of a
person is watching them sleep happens in Paranormal
Activity 4 and that was spooky as hell! So, while it’s more bad news than
good, it did deliver a little fright during the Halloween season.

We all got spoiled with Paranormal
Activity and Paranormal Activity 2
and of course, there will be a fifth installment so hopefully they can get back
into the horror film mindset and make a memorable film. Just be prepared to buy
the bucket of popcorn, you’ll be more interested in eating.

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